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EMMY NOMINATED SERIES directed by and starring Steve Buscemi is back for a second season!!! Park Bench is a local's take on the special people, places, and spirit of New York City. Through unscripted moments with average New Yorkers and Steve's celeb friends, Buscemi takes viewers on a funny, first-hand journey/misadventure, told in his unique voice.

Journey to the Draft is an organic, unscripted, docu-series that follows three college football players, all with promising professional careers. These young men attend different schools across the country and play a variety of positions on the field, but at the end of the day they share one goal:to play in the NFL. The AOL docu-series follows players Leonard Williams, Kevin White and Marcus Peters.

Connected features the personal stories of six New Yorkers woven together into one of the most intimate series ever. This groundbreaking show changes the nature of storytelling by giving each character a camera to document their lives. The result is a unique format revealing as different as everyone appears to be, we are all universally Connected.

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"Stricly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly and The Saturdays' Rochelle Humes talk to mums about their experiences of being mum. Whether the daughter of a Rolling Stone, in one of the most famous girl bands the world has ever known, or a parent coping with disability as well as family life, each mother in Being Mum shows that the feelings, challenges and rewards of motherhood are universal no matter the surroundings you find yourself in."

Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

In a compelling series of verite encounters, Win Win provides unique access into the minds and lives of the world’s most-celebrated entrepreneurs and athletes.

Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.

Erik: Why do you consider standup comedy to be the best thing in the world?

Matt: There’s lots of things I like about it. I like that you get to tell the truth. There’s a lot of most places in, uh, society that’s not okay and standup comedy is one of the few places where it’s rewarded or a good thing. I sort of gravitated toward it in the first place just ‘cause I kinda sensed that there is, you know, if our culture has a version of shamans or truth tellers or something like that. I think it is probably more likely to be found in comedy than almost anywhere else. Uh, it’s raw. It’s you in the moment with no tools, you know. There’s no…like if you’re in a band you have like amplifiers and other guys and lots of noise and when you’re done everyone applauds even if they didn’t like the song whereas in comedy everyone knows exactly how well it’s going immediately in the moment and it’s all on you. There’s no one else to hide behind and, uh, it’s just you speaking with your words and ideas of that directness and I like that there’s like this, uh, way of keeping score almost in a way that, that it’s not…a lot of art is very subjective like is a piece of painting great or not, you know, sorta like people can argue forever about it. But like comedy I think, more so than other things. You kinda know if it’s working because you’re trying to generate this primal response from people, which is laughter and it’s involuntary when you hit it, you know it’s right. Um, which is another thing, like, I really dislike when comedians go for applause. ‘Cause it’s easy to get people to applaud you just say like I just got engaged or, you know, or whatever, you know. There’s lots of pandering thing you can say and people are like, oh, I like that, I applaud. There’s a choice involved with applause but laughter there’s no choice. You just get it out of a person in this involuntary way, which I think is kinda beautiful. The feeling that you get on stage when you make a room full of people laugh, it’s this great feeling. It’s also really human, you know? As opposed to like, spending time in front of a computer or, you know, writing something where you have this layer removed of like, you wrote something then someone else reads it somewhere else and so it like – standup comedy is in the room in that moment at that time. There’s a group of people connecting on this wavelength – it’s kinda magical.

Capture Your Flag creates a model of success college graduates and early- to mid- career professionals can follow by interviewing up and coming leaders about formative decisions and experiences shaping their careers.